The Federal government announced the layoff of thousands more U.S. Postal Service workers over the next few years, all middle class jobs that will unlikely be absorbed by competitors at UPS and FedEx.
The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with plans to make cuts to its first-class mail next spring, as it shutters about half of its 487 mail processing centers.
Now the 700 residents are fighting a new menace: the crisis enveloping the 236-year-old postal service, which is bleeding cash as technology erodes volumes of first-class mail and raising questions about whether traditional mail is going the way of the buggy whip.